I have a very intelligent friend who is a Server/systems/directory MVP.

At the MVP summit he makes a comment to me that MSSQL is just like a spread sheet, to me and one of the SQL MVPs.

We looked at him with disbelief. No WAY. My happenstance came from doing system and database work starting in the DBASE III Plus days and JCL/IBM QUERY on AS/400s. Getting the data processed and delivered seems like a logical pair like cooking the meal and serving it.

So I have often wondered why it was separated? We have better tools then ever to do it. But I guess I'm just an odd one out.